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  1. We consider first-order definability and decidability questions over rings of integers of algebraic extensions of $$\Q$$, paying attention to the uniformity of definitions. The uniformity follows from the simplicity of our first-order definition of $$\Z$$. Namely, we prove that for a large collection of algebraic extensions $$K/\Q$$, $$ \{x \in \oo_K : \text{$$\forall \e \in \oo_K^\times \;\exists \delta \in \oo_K^\times$ such that $$\delta-1 \equiv (\e-1)x \pmod{(\e-1)^2}$$}\} = \Z $$ where $$\oo_K$$ denotes the ring of integers of $$K$$. One of the corollaries of our results is undecidability of the field of constructible numbers, a question posed by Tarski in 1948. \end{abstract} 
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